MARIA LASSNIG – A PAINTING SURVEY, 1950 – 2007
2017-03-13Spanning work made from the 1950s to the end of the artist’s life, this survey traces Maria Lassnig’s evolution from early experiments with abstraction to a richly inventive figuration and the refinement of her ‘body awareness’ paintings, in which she captured physical sensation as felt from within. Lassnig devoted much of her career to recording her physiological states through a direct and unflinching style, believing that ‘truth resides in the emotions produced within the physical shell’. Pursuing her extraordinary science of the self, Lassnig rendered an oeuvre that has influenced important artists such as Martin Kippenberger and Paul McCarthy.
Opposite – Grosse Flächenteilung / Spiegel (Large field-division / mirror), 1989
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2017
Hauser & Wirth London
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
